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October 12, 2015

For the past four years the main trends in the major markets were fixed as if running on rails. Wall Street was bullish, with rapid recoveries after any brief sell-off; gold and silver was bearish, with every rally soon capped and reversed; the dollar was on a...

I posted an article on the gold-silver ratio (GSR) back in February 2009. My closing words were that “it looks like a top was set back in late January”. By that I meant a top in the GSR, not the price of silver which clearly had suffered a large drop during the mass...

At last we are here. It has been a long wait for gold and silver holders. For the wealth preservationists who have held gold/silver since the beginning of the 2000s, it has just been tedious since the highs in 2011. What has happened in the last four years in the...

In an age of Algorithms, High Frequency Trading, Quant-injected performance engines and every Casino Patron with an e-Trade account hyper-stimulating the market after each bit of news that is fed (no pun intended) to us by the financial media and Policy Central, the...

Platinum was the best performing precious metal, bouncing back 7.95 percent, as palladium took a backseat this week. Traders had speculated that the Volkswagen’s emissions scandal might lead to increased demand for palladium should auto buyers shun diesel powered...

I must apologize for leaving so many e-mails and comments unanswered last week. My wife Kathryn and I travelled to northern Michigan and the upper-peninsula for the week and saw some wonderful fall foliage. Cell phone and WIFI coverage was somewhat spotty. While...

Gold is breaking out of its triangle formation -- and a first target at $1,237 is activated. The whole precious metals sector presents itself pretty bullish. It´s still too early to call the end of the bear market but the picture continues to improve. Now Silver and...

Gold has been shown to enhance returns and to reduce overall volatility over the long term. This was clearly seen during the financial crisis when gold was one of the very few assets to surge in value.”

October 11, 2015

The stock market came back with a vengeance out of the late September low (5- week lows), but failed to come back evenly, creating a case of an inter-market bearish divergence. The Dow Industrials, NYA, OEX and SOX made a higher high above the September 17th top on...

Crude has been in a range for most of the month of September oscillating near the 50 day moving average. It had been unable to do much in the way of additional upside however until this month, when it finally broke out above resistance at the top of the range near...

SPX is at an important juncture. After holding support at 1872, it has quickly run up to the level of the August rally peak. To convince us that this show of strength is something more than a typical bear market rally, it must continue its advance after overcoming...

The biggest scam in history continues as the U.S. Department of Treasury Bureau of Printing and Engraving floods the world with worthless fiat currency. Of course, all countries now have fiat currencies, however the U.S. Federal Reserve Note is still the world’s...

Per recent missives, Gold -- as it did twice more this past week -- is putting in a sufficient number of "lift-offs" such that we'll stop enumerating them. The point is: Gold is banking buying bursts on each broadly visible suggestion of central banks eventually...

The Dow Jones has made some nice gains since its lows of August 25th; 1,418 points or 9%, ending the week at over 17,000. However looking at the blue plot below, it’s evident the Dow still has a good way to go to reach its last all-time high of May 19th (18,312)....

October 10, 2015

Commodities staged a rebound on Tuesday. The Thomson Reuters/Core Commodity CRB Index – an equal-weighted benchmark tracking 17 diverse futures contracts – bounced above the 200 level for the first time in six weeks. Being equal-weighted, the CRB index weights gold...

The metals are shaping up better and moving pretty well…but I am still not so sure the major low is yet in place…contrary to what many people are saying right now. I’ve been wrong before and will be again though --- And if I am proven wrong, I will be quick to...

Expectations of a rate hike this year pulled back appreciably, following last Friday's lackluster pronouncement of just 142,000 jobs added for September - as well as disappointing downward revisions in both previous summer reports for July (-22K) and August (-37K...

Syria: An example why gold and silver have not rallied; and an example of why gold and silver ultimately will rally. As a side note, never in the history of the world has a fiat paper currency ever survived. Never before in history has there been so much fiat-...

Gold sector is on major sell signal. Cycle is up. A tradable bounce is in progress. Silver is on a long-term sell signal and investors should be in cash or short. Short-term is on buy signal and traders can play for a corrective bounce.

October 9, 2015

For the past year and longer, financial-market expectations of US Federal Reserve interest-rate policies have been the single-most important determinant of day-to-day fluctuations in the price of gold.

Video analysis of Dow and dollar danger, gold and silver bullion bull wedge, GDX, GDXJ, & SIL bottoming action, and key swing trades.

The left-for-dead gold stocks have rallied dramatically this past week, surging to a major breakout. This pivotal technical event reveals the hyper-bearish psychology plaguing this sector in recent months is dissipating, paving the way for investment capital to...

From the movie “Rounders” regarding poker: “If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” Hypothetically speaking the players at the global poker table could be: The Federal Reserve borrows dollars into existence to...

I’d like to address some aspects of the Greater Depression in this essay. I’m here to tell you that the inevitable became reality in 2008. We’ve had an interlude over the last few years financed by trillions of new currency units.

The IMF have been growing more vocal in recent weeks about the possibility of another financial crisis and severe recession. The head of financial stability at the IMF, José Viñals has said that this outlook “does not rely on extreme assumptions at all”.

BIG PICTURE – Global business activity is slowing down and the majority of the developing nations are experiencing severe economic problems. Over in the developed world, Japan is contracting again, Euro zone is barely growing and even America’s leading economic...

October 8, 2015

Gold is in the process of retesting its breakout from a multi-decade consolidation stretching back to 1980. The significance of such a retest cannot be understated: multi-decade consolidations usually lead to multi-decade advances, with targets many times the...

The Central Banks hate physical cash. So much so they there will likely try to ban it in the near future. You see, almost all of the “wealth” in the financial system is digital in nature. The total currency (actual cash in the form of bills and coins) in the US...

With the benefit of hindsight, the two-day devaluation of the yuan in mid-August might have been a masterstroke of strategy. China executed a financial move that appeared to undermine its own position but instead created trouble for the US; how much is still to be...

The German Bundesbank released an inventory of its gold reserves yesterday in order to quell ongoing public concerns about the true amount of actual unencumbered reserves and the location of the reserves stored in vaults in Frankfurt, London, Paris and particularly...

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